“Clippers owner Steve Ballmer knows the reviews on the team’s new logo haven’t all been positive, but he said that’s to be expected,” Melissa Rohlin reports for The Los Angeles Times.
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, because he’s the clown that approved it.
Rohlin reports, “‘Change is always hard on some people… But the truth is people get through change,’ Ballmer said Thursday morning. ‘If you love the Clippers, you’ll love the new Clipper logo.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Balmy never learns: You can’t force people to “love” your product.
Rohlin reports, “He said that when he bought the team in August for $2 billion, one of his top priorities was to create a new logo.”
MacDailyNews Take: When he wildly overpaid for the team in August for $2 billion… There, fixed it for ya.
Clippers owner Steve Ballmer“Ballmer spent the morning high-fiving fans and taking selfies. He even threw a Clippers’ T-shirt on a guy who was wearing a Lakers jersey,” Rohlin reports. “The Clippers were eliminated from the second round of the 2015 playoffs by the Houston Rockets in Game 7. It looked as though the Clippers were going to advance to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in their 45-year franchise history. But they lost three games in a row to allow the Rockets to become just the ninth team in NBA history to recover from such a deficit and advance to the next round.”
MacDailyNews Take: Taking after their owner who’s one of the world’s foremost experts at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s hardly surprising that an uncouth ex-CEO of Microsoft would commission and approve an ugly, confusing logo for his pet NBA team.
This is what happens when a man destined to sell used cars stumbles into the world’s luckiest dorm assignment and hooks up with the world’s greatest thief to the tune of billions of dollars. You get horrible, tasteless computer products and basketball team logos that look like icons for a free third-party Windows Phone maze game (if Windows Phone had any third-party apps, that is).
(Actually, it’s very reminiscent of an Apple iPad. Some major, underlying issues there for psychologists to decipher, we’re sure):
L.A. Clippers new logo
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
NBA logos and uniforms in general have been getting worse over the past couple of years, tending to pull out a very 70s trend. But this is just gawd awful.
I would say it’s horrid but that would mean other things that are horrid are equally bad and this exceeds that by a wide margin. To imagine this embroidered on jerseys caps and silk screened on well. …anything… would seem to be an offense against nature. Which may be the only offense the Clippers will generate for some time to come.
Mercedes can not happy about Steve Ballmers new logo. As we type, they must be rounding up the legal beagles up to head off any further damaging associations to there already trouble CLA.
Proof positive the Balmer’s brain doesn’t have one iota of esthetics encompassed in his overly large head, but then after the brown Zune, I should expect no more than that.
Oh come on guys. It’s not the greatest logo in the world and he could have done much better. But the logo is tight like an icon and is easy to embroider – practical if not aesthetically pleasing.
To be fair, the old Clippers logo wasn’t exactly spectacular either. The same goes for most of the NBA team logos, which are absolute dreck.
Looks like the logo for the Clappers, which is good since most NBA players probably have a bad case of it, and it’d be too awkward to call them the STD’ers.
Balmer buying the Clippers is the best thing that could have happened to basketball in Los Angeles. And by that, I mean for the Lakers.
The recent years have seen a stunning reversal of fortune in LA, with the Clippers becoming the new powerhouse while the struggling Lakers can’t even make the playoffs.
But fret not, Lakers fans! Inertia may carry the Clippers to one or two more successful seasons, but Balmer’s unique brand of aggressive incompetence will have your team back on top eventually. Just wait.
Let’s go CLA!
NBA logos and uniforms in general have been getting worse over the past couple of years, tending to pull out a very 70s trend. But this is just gawd awful.
At a quick glance, doesn’t this look an awful lot like the Chicago Cubs logo?
Looks like a new gas station company.
Or wait, is this a new rival to K-Mart?
In the name of Jobs, someone slip that guy a hit of acid.
Looks like it was designed in paintbrush under windows 3.1
I can’t help but see an elephant squished into a box.
Wow.
I was ready to view a poorly designed logo.
But that actually hurts my eyes and makes me look away.
Vapid.
it does look like a paper clip
It’s Microsoft Bob 2.0!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Yep. Clippers vs. Clippy – everything old is being made new.
This is easier than shooting fish in a barrel.
There’s just no sport in teasing poor Mr. Balmer.
I would say it’s horrid but that would mean other things that are horrid are equally bad and this exceeds that by a wide margin. To imagine this embroidered on jerseys caps and silk screened on well. …anything… would seem to be an offense against nature. Which may be the only offense the Clippers will generate for some time to come.
Some things never change. This gave me a nice chuckle on a Friday morning.
The logo is missing a label on the bottom right corner.
“Ballmer Inside”
“If you love the Clippers, you’ll love the new Clipper logo”
That just about says it all.
It’s a maze that Fu(k’d up. Can’t get to the center of the A. 🙂
This might be the best MS Publisher can do…
Next, Ballmer intends to get the cheerleaders to mix things up a bit with the help of Songsmith:
Probably paid some design firm about eleven million dollars to come up with half of a Pac-Man maze.
Mercedes can not happy about Steve Ballmers new logo. As we type, they must be rounding up the legal beagles up to head off any further damaging associations to there already trouble CLA.
Money simply does not buy taste.
I would guess the Lakers will get their head out of their ass at some point and LA will forget the Clippers.
Proof positive the Balmer’s brain doesn’t have one iota of esthetics encompassed in his overly large head, but then after the brown Zune, I should expect no more than that.
I like it. It’s far better than the logo that poor team has weathered with for decades. I think it’s cool.
Oh come on guys. It’s not the greatest logo in the world and he could have done much better. But the logo is tight like an icon and is easy to embroider – practical if not aesthetically pleasing.
To be fair, the old Clippers logo wasn’t exactly spectacular either. The same goes for most of the NBA team logos, which are absolute dreck.
It’s the perfect logo for a pipe cleaning company.
My immediate impression of the Ballmer logo:
A fat monster devouring Los Angeles.
Om Nom Nom!
👹🎂🍰👹
Kind of fitting.
Looks like the logo for the Clappers, which is good since most NBA players probably have a bad case of it, and it’d be too awkward to call them the STD’ers.
Looks like it was inspired by Pac Man.
Balmer buying the Clippers is the best thing that could have happened to basketball in Los Angeles. And by that, I mean for the Lakers.
The recent years have seen a stunning reversal of fortune in LA, with the Clippers becoming the new powerhouse while the struggling Lakers can’t even make the playoffs.
But fret not, Lakers fans! Inertia may carry the Clippers to one or two more successful seasons, but Balmer’s unique brand of aggressive incompetence will have your team back on top eventually. Just wait.
——RM